Anarchism and Utopianism
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2010-10-31
Place of publication: Manchester, England
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9780719079344
Description: This collection of original essays examines the relationship between anarchism and utopianism, exploring the intersections and overlaps between these two fields of study and providing novel perspectives for the analysis of both. The book opens with an historical and philosophical survey of the subject matter and goes on to examine antecedents of the anarchist literary utopia; anti-capitalism and the anarchist utopian literary imagination; free love as an expression of anarchist politics and utopian desire; and revolutionary practice. Contributors explore the creative interchange of anarchism and utopianism in both theory and modern political practice; debunk some widely-held myths about the inherent utopianism of anarchy; uncover the anarchistic influences active in the history of utopian thought; and provide fresh perspectives on contemporary academic and activist debates about ecology, alternatives to capitalism, revolutionary theory and practice, and the politics of art, gender and sexuality. Scholars in both anarchist and utopian studies have for many years acknowledged a relationship between these two areas, but this is the first time that the historical and philosophical dimensions of the relationship have been investigated as a primary focus for research, and its political significance given full and detailed consideration.

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Table of contents: title: Notes on contributors
pagenum: ix; title: Preface
pagenum: xiii; title: Acknowledgements
pagenum: xvii; title: Introduction, Laurence Davis
pagenum: 1; label: I
title: Historical and philosophical overview; label: 1.
title: Anarchism and the dialectic of utopia, John P. Clark
pagenum: 9; label: II
title: Antecedents of the anarchist literary utopia; label: 2.
title: Daoism as utopian or accommodationist: radical Daoism reexamined in light of the Guodian Manuscripts, John A. Rapp
pagenum: 33; label: 3.
title: Diderot’s Supplément au voyage de Bougainville: steps towards an anarchist utopia, Peter G. Stillman
pagenum: 53; label: III
title: Anti-capitalism and the anarchist utopian literary imagination; label: 4.
title: Everyone an artist: art, labour, anarchy, and utopia, Laurence Davis
pagenum: 73; label: 5.
title: Anarchist powers: B. Traven, Pierre Clastres, and the question of utopia, Nicholas Spencer
pagenum: 99; label: 6.
title: Utopia, anarchism and the political implications of emotions, Gisela Heffes
pagenum: 118; label: 7.
title: Anarchy in the archives: notes from the ruins of Sydney and Melbourne, Brian Greenspan
pagenum: 131; label: IV
title: Free love: anarchist politics and utopian desire; label: 8.
title: Speaking desire: anarchism and free love as utopian performance in fin de siècle Britain, Judy Greenway
pagenum: 153; label: 9.
title: Visions of the future: reproduction, revolution and regeneration in American anarchist utopian fiction, Brigitte Koenig
pagenum: 171; label: 10.
title: Intimate fellows: utopia and chaos in the early post-Stonewall gay liberation manifestos, Dominic Ording
pagenum: 187; label: V
title: Rethinking revolutionary practice; label: 11.
title: Anarchism, utopianism and the politics of emancipation, Saul Newman
pagenum: 207; label: 12.
title: Anarchism and the politics of utopia, Ruth Kinna
pagenum: 221; label: 13.
title: 'The space now possible': anarchist education as utopian hope, Judith Suissa
pagenum: 241; label: 14.
title: Utopia in contemporary anarchism, Uri Gordon
pagenum: 260; title: Index
pagenum: 276